CVE-2018-20236

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

There was an command injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5a before version 3.0.10 via URI handling. A remote attacker could send a malicious URI to a victim using Sourcetree for Windows to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.

Affected products

Atlassian Sourcetree for Windows: from 0.5a before 3.0.10 — fixed in 3.0.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Atlassian Sourcetree for Windows 3.0.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152173/Sourcetree-Git-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-URL-Handling.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107401
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-11291
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/30
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152173/Sourcetree-Git-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-URL-Handling.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107401
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-11291
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/30

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